Published to accompany the exhibition showing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 16 July to 28 December 2014, and touring the USA thereafter this is the first major retrospective of Jamie Wyeth's work in over thirty years; Wyeth (b. 1946) is the third generation of the family of prominent American artists.
A new solo retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, which opens July 16 and continues through December 28, shows Wyeth venturing into the modern era without ever violating the introspective idiom he seemed to command nearly from birth. His portraits of public figures such as JFK, Andy Warhol, and Rudolf Nureyev emphasize their inner lives. His landscape Patriot's Barn could fit almots indistinguishably alongside his father's spare off-season farmscapes, until you notice that it was painted in 2001, a couple of months after the destruction of the World Trade Center: Wyeth captures the impact of the event, registering even at this remove the sense of a country turned upside down, on an empty hillside at the far edge of autumn.--Kevin Conley "Town & Country"
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